Spathelia brittonii P Wilson

Spathelia brittonii P. Wilson A tree about 10 m. in height ; leaves odd-pinnate, 4-7 dm. long, the raehis wingless, its velvety pubescence intermixed with short stiff hairs, when young ; leaflets 49-63, narrowly lanceolate, 7-10 cm. long, 1.5-2.8 cm. broad at the base, sessile or short-petioluled, coarsely crenate-dentate to the middle or above, gradually tapering to an acuminate glandtipped apex, more or less rounded and somewhat inequilateral at the base or cordate, dullgreen above and glabrous, or with minute, scattered, stellate pubescence, paler beneath and glabrous or minutely stellate-pubescent, more or less tomentulose on the midrib, the margin bordered by a prominent row of elevated glands : panicle 1.5 m. long aud about as broad, the branches velvety-tomentulose; sepals small, narrowly lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, 0.5-0.6 mm. broad, tomentulose, with a prominent oblong gland at the apex ; petals oblanceolate or obovate, purple, 6-7 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. broad, gland-tipped, acutish ; filaments filiform, with hirsutulous wing-like appendages on each side extending from the base to about the middle ; anthers elliptic ; fruit (immature) obovate, obcordate, about 1.5 cm. long, and about 1 cm. broad ; pedicels 8-10 mm. long.
Type collected on a jagged rocky hill, Bafios San Vicente, Province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, September, 1910, Brilton & Gager 7386 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).